All the benefits of a committed relationship, in other words, but with none of the emotional or practical ties.If it sounds a recipe for disaster, that’s because it very often is.

But in the modern world, in which the internet has become a vehicle for all manner of impropriety, she regards this kind of behaviour as perfectly acceptable.

We have encountered one another via an internet dating service established for the sole purpose of enabling married people to commit adultery.

What I don't know is how her husband will feel about it. Aside from the little matter of her marital status, she also believes I have a wife, but she doesn't care.

She wants instant gratification even though we've exchanged only a few words online.

To have a friend I could enjoy being with, with the added benefit of sex.’‘It is fashionable, at the moment, to try to take the intimacy out of sex, to see it as a no-strings pleasure that can be picked up and put down at will,’ she says. It’s a lesson that 24-year-old Evie Moore has learned the hard way.